| 96031 | August 23 | Holiday and observance | Day of the National Flag (Ukraine) |
| 96032 | August 23 | Holiday and observance | European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism or Black Ribbon Day (European Union and other countries), and related observances:Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day (Romania) |
| 96033 | August 23 | Holiday and observance | International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (International) |
| 96034 | August 23 | Holiday and observance | Internaut Day |
| 96035 | August 23 | Holiday and observance | National Day for Physicians (Iran) |
| 96036 | August 23 | Holiday and observance | Umhlanga Day (Swaziland) |
| 96037 | August 24 | Event | 49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Battle of the Bagradas (49 BC) by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture. |
| 96038 | August 24 | Event | 79 – Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24). |
| 96039 | August 24 | Event | 394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, was written. |
| 96040 | August 24 | Event | 410 – The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome. |
| 96041 | August 24 | Event | 455 – The Vandals, led by king Genseric, begin to plunder Rome. Pope Leo I requests Genseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens. He agrees and the gates of Rome are opened. However, the Vandals loot a great amount of treasure. |
| 96042 | August 24 | Event | 1185 – Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans. |
| 96043 | August 24 | Event | 1200 – King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Bordeaux Cathedral. |
| 96044 | August 24 | Event | 1215 – Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid. |
| 96045 | August 24 | Event | 1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague. |
| 96046 | August 24 | Event | 1391 – Jews are massacred in Palma de Mallorca. |
| 96047 | August 24 | Event | 1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed. |
| 96048 | August 24 | Event | 1482 – The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army |
| 96049 | August 24 | Event | 1516 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq. |
| 96050 | August 24 | Event | 1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony. |
| 96051 | August 24 | Event | 1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat. |
| 96052 | August 24 | Event | 1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer. |
| 96053 | August 24 | Event | 1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania. |
| 96054 | August 24 | Event | 1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday). |
| 96055 | August 24 | Event | 1781 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit. |
| 96056 | August 24 | Event | 1812 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz. |
| 96057 | August 24 | Event | 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze. |
| 96058 | August 24 | Event | 1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed. |
| 96059 | August 24 | Event | 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 96060 | August 24 | Event | 1820 – Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal. |